Major Achievements

Major initiatives in Punjab

• Web-based Counseling for PSBTE (Punjab State Technical Education Board) - First of its kind in the state of Punjab, Web-based Off-Campus Counseling for PSBTE has been implemented for the admissions in all the Diploma courses in Engineering, Lateral Entry (LEET) to Engineering and Pharmacy streams in 70 institutes across the state, a most transparent system of admitting students to various academic streams. Three rounds of counseling were held for 16,638 seats available in polytechnic colleges in the state of Punjab spanning over one month. In total, 21000 students registered themselves for taking admissions in all the three streams.
• Web-based Counseling for PTU (Punjab Technical University) - Web based counseling for admissions to all the B.Tech/B.Pharmacy Degree courses in Eighty Four(84) colleges all over the state of Four(4) Universities (PTU, GNDU, Pbi.Uni., Pb Agriculture Uni.) under Punjab Technical University (PTU) Jalandhar has been implemented for 2009-10 session successfully bringing transparency in the seat allottments. Three rounds of counseling were held seats available in all the colleges spanning over one month. In total, 25606 students participated in the web based counseling for taking admissions.
• MESS (Monitoring of Elections System through Sms) - MESS is a Web based application software for Department of Elections, Punjab. The application is aimed at capturing a set of fixed events for all the Polling Stations of an Assembly Constituencies through SMS by the authorized mobile numbers from respective Polling stations (in this case PROs) in a prescribed format and to update the database for online monitoring reports on CEO’s website. The software has the provision for entering data through web-entry also. Web-entry is only allowed to authorized users like ROs/AROs of the assembly segments..
• SUWIDHA (Single User-friendly WIndow Disposal Help-line for Applicants) - SUWIDHA is built to provide the convenience to the citizen by capturing the input at a single point, defining a specified delivery date depending upon the type of service, accepting cash at the counter itself and delivering district administration services to the citizens from the same counters. It ensures timely delivery without any need to interact with the concerned branch. SUWIDHA has been implemented in all the districts of Punjab. Online status of the applications submitted on SUWIDHA Counters in the districts is available on SUWIDHA website (http://suwidha.nic.in). After the successful pilot launch of SUWIDHA-SDM at SDM Mohali, SUWIDHA Project has been replicated at 56 SDM offices of Punjab and is being expanded to all SDM offices. SUWIDHA was ranked Topmost among all the e-governance projects in the country by Skoch in 2005-06. SUWIDHA received Excellence award from Microsoft for 2006 in September 2006.
• PRISM ( Property Registration Information System Module) - PRISM automates all major activities of Sub-Registrar office and covers deeds of Sale, Mortgage, Will, Adoption, SPA, GPA, Exchange, Pattanama/ Lease, Tatima, Cancellation of SPA/GPA/Will total 27 deeds etc. Major features include token issuance, online capturing, storage, printing of photographs on stamp paper, valuation of property, scanning of deed documents online/offline, on the spot registration, issuance of mutation notice as Parchayadast, finalization & pendency check of deeds by SRO, single window service etc. It has been implemented in all 153 SRO offices in Punjab. Skoch ranked PRISM ninth among all the e-governance projects in the country in 2005-06. PRISM is ISO certified product.
• iTISP(Integrated Treasuries Information System of Punjab) - iTISP is an online system developed for automation of district treasuries in Punjab. Salient features of TISP are verification of messenger and DDO by photograph and signature, online system, computerized cheque printing, linkage with budget, AG accounts & bank, tight security, Web enabled etc. Payments, receipts, pension, LOC, stamp etc are included. It has been implemented at all the District Treasuries and all Sub-Treasuries of the state. All sub-treasuries and treasuries have been linked to the state HQ.
• VAHAN (Vehicle Registration System) - It has modules for Registration of Commercial and Private Vehicles, Fee & Fine Collection, Fitness Validity and Tax. Replication in the districts is under process.
• SARATHI(Driving License Issuance System for Transport department) - It covers various transactions related to Learner’s License, Permanent License, Conductor’s License and Driving School License. Replication in the districts is under process..
• SSIS(Social Security Information System) - SSIS enables to maintain and monitor the database of pension beneficiaries under different social security schemes disbursed through DSSOs of Department of Social Security and Women & Child Development. SSIS has been implemented at district Fatehgarh Sahib on pilot basis and replication is being taken up in other districts.
• AIS (Affidavit Issuance System) - AIS provides easy access to the administration for attestation of affidavit of any kind by paying nominal fees. The photograph of the deponent is captured in person on the spot along with purpose of affidavit along with other relevant details. Widely appreciated by the citizens, media and administrators, AIS has been replicated at more than 50 Tehsils in addition to all the 20 districts with service over multiple counters.
• CIPA (Common Integrated Police Application) - A project of MHA to computerize and networking of all the police station, it aims at reduction of manual records, elimination of duplicate and inconsistent record keeping, maintenance of details of criminals, introducing transparency in the working of police, facilitating supervision by the senior officers and faster response to the public. The implementation in Punjab has been initiated.
• BPIS (Budget Preparation and Information System) - It offers automated solution for Budget preparation for Government of Punjab. BPIS covers generation of Budget Documents and analysis of budget based on Budget Documents. It is made available on Internet every year.
• EEMS (Employment Exchange Management System) - It covers all the operations of an employment exchange including registration, renewal of registration, vacancy booking and submission etc.
• DSS (Depot Sahayak System) - System designed for Pepsu Roadways Transport Corporation (PRTC), DSS covers operations like Generation of Waybills, Closing of Waybills, Ticket Stock Arrival and Issuance, Ticket Box Management, Generation of Advance booking Waybills, Closing of Advance Booking Waybills, Tax Calculations and Overtime Calculations etc.
• Arms Licenses Issuance System (ALIS) -ALIS provides workflow of Arms Licenses branch with tracking mechanism apart from License generation and history maintenance.
• Birth & Death Issuance System (BDIS) System developed to maintain Birth and Death registrations and issuance of certificates.
• MAREG (Marriage Registration Information System) - MAREG is conceived for automating the process of registration of marriages at distrct/SDM level. Pilot implemented at Jalandhar district. MAREG is taken up for replication all over the state.
• MARRCIS (Marriage-ability Certificate Issuance System) - MARRCIS is developed for computerizing the issuance of marriage-ability certificate. It automates the process including notings generation, newspaper notice etc.
• Establishment of LAN (Local Area Network) in Punjab Secretariat, Punjab Mini Secretariat.
• PVSIS (Punjab Vidhan Sabha Information System) - PVSIS Covers personal details of MLAs along with related information about the working of Sessions i.e about the list of business, Questions asked in the session, bills and resolutions passed in the Vidhan Sabha, Calling attention notices of Vidhan Sabha, Information about the previous Vidhan Sabha (information regarding sessions held, sittings of the sessions etc), other support services related to Pensioners, Status of MLAs Bills (regarding salary allowance, TA/DA bills, reimbursement of telephone & medical bills etc), general nformation about Council Of Ministers, Prime Ministers, Chief Ministers, Governors, Speakers, Deputy Speakers, MPs and former MPs from Punjab, database of officers of Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Current News and Information about meetings of the Committees, etc.
• AGMARKNET (Agriculture Produce Marketing Information Network) - AGMARKNET Facilitates market fees collection, database of dealers, Issuance of Licenses for dealers etc. The State Agricultural Marketing Boards/Departments/Markets are collecting the desired market information and passing on the same to their respective authorities and Head office of DMI for onward dissemination. For easy interface with farmers and other beneficiaries a portal for Agmarknet (http://agmarknet.nic.in) has been developed to serve as a single window for accessing websites of various organizations concerned with agricultural marketing. Besides price and arrival figure, the site provides weekly trend analysis, linkage to online commodity exchange of India, FAO website, etc.
• DACNET (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation Network) - Its objective is to computerize all field and Directorate Offices covered under Agriculture and Cooperation. For analysis and reporting of pesticides in RPTL office, a work flow application named SARS “Sample Analysis and Reporting System” has been developed for Regional Pesticide Testing Lab, Chandigarh. This project also covers operations like development of Portal for Directorate RPTL, implementation of generic applications and provides support in Computerisation of the Directorate like dialup, networking etc. All the data from the field is updated on its website (http://dacnet.nic.in) on weekly basis.
• DCIS (District Courts Information System) - Local Area Network has been established in Patiala District Court on pilot basis. Replication in other 16 Districts courts has been planned. System for generation of cause list, creation of judgements, etc has been undertaken.
• E-Kiosks - A touch screen based system, E-Kiosk, has been implemented at Nawanshehar, Mukatsar and Fatehgarh Sahib. The software of E-Kiosk has been developed to provide the status of SUWIDHA applications, Voter list, information about various schemes, Bus/Rail Time table etc.
• CONFONET (Consumer Forums Network) - CONFONET is central project to computerize and to network the entire state consumer disputes redressal commissions and District consumer forums. Hardware has been delivered and installed at all the sites and trainings have been organized for the user department officials.
• OAS (Office Automation Suite)OAS comprises of four generic and customizable modules to automate the internal processes of any government office.
  • DDMS (Diary and Dispatch Monitoring System): DDMS is generic solution to manage and monitor the receipt and dispatch of mail and its movement. It is implemented at a number of locations in different departments/officers
  • CCMS (Court Cases Monitoring System): To facilitate departments in maintaining and monitoring court cases pending in different courts (e.g. Supreme Court, High Court, District Court, Labour Court, Consumer Court, etc)
  • CoIS (Courts Information System): A generic customizable solution to manage administration of the court related activities of the officers holding the courts. Specially customized version for Labour court Patiala has been under implementation to be replicated among all the labour courts.
  • MMS (Meeting Monitoring system): MMS provides single point solution for organizing various meetings in the department. It assists in generation of agenda items, Memos for the meetings, recording of minutes, action status, etc.
• PAPMIS (Punjab Agricultural Produce Management Information System) - Computerization of market Committees, DMO and Mandi Board Head Office, It covers all the operations of market committees like registration of dealers, calculation of Market Fee, Recording of daily arrival, monitoring of sale & purchase etc. This software helps the market committee to transmit the data to AGMARKNET portal. Up to date information of MCs is also being transmitted to DMO and Mandi Board Head Office with the help of this software.
• BPIS (Bus Passes Issuance System)C - BPIS is developed to facilitate the issuance of Bus Passes to the eligible applicants. Implemented at Patiala district, BPIS will be taken up in all the districts.
• Immigration Check post Computerization - Implemented at Amritsar check post.
• VC (Video conferencing) - Established in all the 17 Districts and Punjab Civil Secretariat and being used by various departments of Punjab Government.
• Technical/implementation support to Passport office, Central Excise & Customs, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Press Information Bureau, Food Corporation of India, General Post Office/Postal Life Insurance, Registrar of Companies, Director General of Foreign Trade, State PWD department for PMGSY (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna).
• MIS for Cooperative societies, MIS of Pay Anomalies
• Census Applications (Industries, Population, Education, Agriculture etc)
• Rural Development sector (RuralSoft)Web based schemes monitoring system for DRDAs of Punjab.
• DISE (District Information System for Election)DISE is randomization software for Election Department. It handles the functionalities like formation of polling parties for Lok Sabha/Assembly Elections in a random way, election orders for individual parties, Constituency wise distribution of employees and attendance sheet for various constituencies as per Election Commission of India ECI guidelines.
• IDSP (Integrated Disease Surveillance Project) - IDSP is a central project in which NIC is supporting the department in setting up computer centre, VC cum training centre in all the districts and state office. The IDSP software would be developed centrally for implementation in the field offices.
• COPIS (Copying branch Information System) - COPIS is developed to manage and monitor the functioning of Copying branch in the DC offices in Punjab. COPIS is being implemented at Patiala district on pilot basis.
• ADIS (Atta Dal Information System) - Atta Dal Scheme has been launched by the Punjab Government for distribution of food grain at subsidized rates to poor families of Punjab. A survey is being conducted by the government to get the details of family eligible to get benefit from this scheme. ADIS software has been designed to fulfill the requirement of the survey conducted by Government of Punjab for data compilation of poor house holds.
• Connectivity for Deptt. Of POST (DOPT) - Lease lines have been installed in Post Offices in Punjab under Department Of Post project.
• DISDIS (DIstrict Sangat Darshan Information System) - is a computerized system for the automation of grievances monitoring at district level under the Sangat Sarshan movement of H’ble Chief Minister of Punjab to reach people. It is a flexible solution to automate and monitor the process of grievances monitoring with host of features. Successfully launched at Kapurthala and Faridkot districts, it is being replicated at other sites.
• DSMS (District Scheme Monitoring System) - There are large number of development works/schemes which are executed by various agencies in the district under various government schemes. And these schemes are sanctioned by district planning boards/committee/zila prishads and funds are released by the sanctioning authorities. In order to evaluate the progress of each work/scheme on monthly basis for the better monitoring by the district authorities, DSMS has been developed which has the provision for storage of photographs of every stage of a work in addition to all relevant data. Implemented on pilot basis at Fatehgarh Sahib district, DSMS is being taken up for replication in other districts.
• OPA (Office Automation Procedure) - A centrally developed system by NIC HQs, OPA, for automating the file movement and monitoring in an office has been implemented successfully in the Department of Finance in Punjab Civil Secretariat and department of Planning.
• ICIS (Identity Card Issuance System) - ICIS is developed to facilitate the issuance of Identity Card to district officials as well as for the Nambardar of villages. ICIS has already been implemented at Patiala, Sangrur, Jalandhar, Hosiarpur, Faridkot, Ferozepur, SAS Nagar, Mansa.
• NPI (National Portal of India) - NPI, a central project has been developed as a Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan (NEGP) of the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the Indian Government.
• NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005) - A web based system, [http://www.nrega.nic.in] facilitates for online data entry, issuing job cards and monitoring of work allocation and funds under NREGA, a central project. In first phase, it was implemented in four districts Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Nawanshahr covered under NREGA. From this financial year, it has been replicated in all the remaining 16 districts also which are now covered under the project.
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) - [http://www.ssamis.nic.in] SSAMIS is a web based solution for monitoring progress of three educational schemes namely (SSA- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, KGBV- Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, NPEGEL - National Programme for girl’s education at elementary level) being run at block/gram panchayat level. All the Annual target data and quarterly achievement data of all above educational schemes can be entered by each district that can be monitored by the State Project Director (SPD) of Punjab and can be further reviewed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
  The implementation of SSAMIS has been initiated in Punjab State and annual target data and quarterly achievement data entry has been started since its launch on 31st July 2008.
• Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC & PNDT) - [http://www.pndt.nic.in]PNDT is a web based system designed for keeping track of every pregnant women going for clinical follow-up to Hospitals, Clinics, Laboratory for the regular checkup. All the details about the women can be entered in FORM F as in prescribed format and can be entered online in the PNDT software by the clinics/labs and hospitals on monthly basis. District administrative user can create separate users for clinics, Laboratory and hospitals. The district administration can generate MIS and can monitor on regular interval & submit to the state. At the central level, national level MIS on PC & PNDT of all states will be created. The major objective of the computerization is to monitor and improve the sex ratio between Boy and girl child.
• National Panchayat Portal (NPP) - National Panchayat Portal has to be launched on the site www.panchayat.nic.in for state Punjab. Presently due to change of Gram Panchayat (GP) in various districts, an exercise is being executed by user department to fix GPs and further linked with census village list. Many districts has been completed and few are left. On completion and freezing the GPs, panchayat portal will be published for the Punjab state. A massive exercise has been performed by user department completing 90% of panchayat directory at site http://panchayat.nic.in/direectory.
• Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) - Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), is a program to connect 1,60,000 habitations by road by 2007. Presently over 20,000 road works are in various stages of execution in 28 States and 6 Union Territories. In order to effectively monitor the entire programme and bring about improved efficiency, accountability and transparency in implementation, web enabled application software (www.pmgsy.nic.in) - Online Management and Monitoring System (OMMS), has been implemented in Punjab since year 2002.
• CIS (Certificate Issuance System) - CIS is developed to facilitate the issuance of various types of certificates issued by SDM office covering Backward Area, Caste Certificate, Income Certificate, Rural Area Certificate, Kandi Area Certificate, Neem Pahari Area Certificate, Other Backward Class Certificate, Residence Certificate, Scheduled Caste Certifcate, Sub-Mountain Area Certificate. CIS supports manual verification and leaflet verification. It also generates the various type of certificate report in bilingual (Punjabi & English). CIS has been successfully implemented in all the tehsils of sangrur district and districts are in pipeline.
• HCIS (Handicap Certificate Issuance System) - HCIS is developed to facilitate the issuance of handicap certificate issued by Civil Surgeon office. HCIS facilitates capturing of photograph of applicant and also generates various types of output reports. It has been successfully implemented at Sangrur district.
• National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) - Under the NSAP, three schemes have been covered as Indira Gandhi National Old Ages Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Widows Pension Scheme (IGNWPS), Indira Gandhi National Diasbled Pension Scheme (IGNDPS). Government of India will be providing a monthly pension to rural and urban beneficiaries under each scheme.
• eCourts Mission Mode Project - : Initiative has been taken to establish LAN connectivity in all the district courts under mission mode project (MMP)eCourts of Govt. of India. The IT infrastructure in all the district courts is also been upgraded.
• Web Services
  • Websites of all the 17 Districts of Punjab
  • Official Web Site of Govt of Punjab, Punjab Vidhan Sabha
  • Official e-mail server for Govt of Punjab (http://punjabmail.gov.in)
  • Dynamic web site of Regional Passport Offices in Punjab
  • SUWIDHA on Web (http://suwidha.nic.in)
  • Intranet for Secretariat LAN
  • WebQMS (Web Based Quality Management System): Web based Quality Management System for NIC
  • NIC Punjab Website (http://pbsc.nic.in)
  • Domain Name Registration
  • Security Auditing
  • Website Hosting
  • VPN Services (Remote Publishing facilities)
• Geographical Information System
  • Digitization of village level maps for all the seventeen districts
  • Linkage of digitized maps with village directory database